Summary Writing Made Easy

Summary Writing

We are going to learn how to summarize a text

Poll

Are you familiar with this writing skill?

• Yes

• No

• Doesn't ring a bell

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Multiple Choice

1. When writing a summary, you should ask yourself: "Do you need this information to understand the text?"

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

2. Which one of the following is NOT a part of a summary?

• Using your own words

• Summary shorter than the text

• Including main ideas

• Exact words from the text

Multiple Choice

3. A summary includes the following:

• The same text

• All the details

• Main idea and supporting details

• Main ideas, examples and pictures

Multiple Choice

4. Which best describes a summary?

• a really long detailed piece of writing

• something that teachers make you write

• the main ideas and important details of a text

• the entire text told in your own words

Multiple Choice

5. Summaries help me...

• understand what I'm reading

• include the key points of a text

• write about what I read

• all of the above

How to summarize:

• read and comprehend the text.

• identify main ideas and key points.

• express this information in their own words.

Let's start with Nursery Rhymes

Summarize the nursery rhyme in as few words as possible.

Multiple Choice

The sentence that best summarizes the rhyme is:

• A spider fell but got up again.

• A spider lost in the rain

Multiple Choice

The sentence that best summarizes the rhyme is:

• A boy fell, hurt his head, and bandaged it.

• A boy and a girl who went up the hill to get some water then the boy fell

Now let's take it a step further!

Choose the best answer.

Multiple Choice

Lisa knew all of the seven dwarfs except one. She remembered Grumpy, Sleepy and Bashful. And of course she couldn't forget Doc and Dopey. Dopey was her favorite. But there was one she just could not remember. Let's see. There's also Sneezy, and that's six. But she could not remember that last one. What was his name?

• Dopey was Lisa's favorite dwarf.

• Lisa could not remember the name of one of the dwarfs.

• There were seven dwarfs in all.

• Lisa had a good memory.

Multiple Choice

Tomorrow is Jill's birthday. She is excited because she gets to pick where she will eat dinner. Will it be Mexican food at the Big Enchilada House? Or will it be fried chicken at the Chicken Shack, or a big cheeseburger at Al's Hamburger Palace. She just couldn't decide. Then there was always the Pizza Shop with that great pepperoni pizza. How would she ever decide? Maybe she would just flip a coin.

• Jill has many restaurants to choose from for her birthday.

• Jill loves Mexican food.

• The Pizza Shop has the best pizza in town.

• Jill will choose a place by flipping a coin.

Multiple Choice

San Francisco is located on the coast of California in an area often called the Bay Area. The weather is generally very mild, seldom getting really cold or really hot. Its mild climate is one reason many people live there. It seldom snows in San Francisco and generally does not get below freezing during the winter. Even in the middle of summer, temperatures may be in the mid 80s with a cool breeze from the bay keeping the weather very comfortable.

• San Francisco has many neat things to do.

• It seldom snows in California.

• Many people choose to live in California.

• The weather in San Francisco is generally very mild.

Open Ended

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